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As reported by OTR last week, Gorillaz play Dublin’s O2 on September 22. Tickets at €59.80 a pop go on sale on Friday week (May 21). The press release refers to this as “Gorillaz Live Show to Ireland for First …

Jim Carroll

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Mon, May 10, 2010, 09:35

As reported by OTR last week, Gorillaz play Dublin’s O2 on September 22. Tickets at €59.80 a pop go on sale on Friday week (May 21). The press release refers to this as “Gorillaz Live Show to Ireland for First Time” which will come as news to those who saw the band at Dublin’s Olympia in June 2001.

While music sales went up in ’09, it was a different story with DVDs with a 5 per cent dip in UK sales due to Ye Olde Recession. Would be interesting to know, all the same, if this also applies to TV box sets.

Megan McArdle shakes a fist at file-sharers, while a bunch of musicians deliver their own riposte at her article in The Atlantic.

Remember Himself? This was the Irish answer to Loaded magazine which hit the shelves in the late 1990s and didn’t really hang around too long. This piece on Joe, a new website aimed at Irish men, reminded OTR of Himself. “As a man who uses digital media a lot, I knew there was a gap in the market,” says site boss Niall McGarry. ‘‘I would regularly use sports websites, but I found they didn’t have an Irish slant. Digital just hasn’t found its feet yet in Ireland.” Stop the lights! “Digital just hasn’t found its feet yet in Ireland”? Jaysus, Niall, where have you been, lad?

Snark-attack! Someone better tell Hot Press that they’ve mistaken lil’ Conor O’Brien for Frederick Forsyth as they seem to think that the new Villagers album is called “Day of the Jackal”. Wonder how long it will take ‘em to “fix” that one? Next week: Niall Stokes waxes lyrical about classic U2 album “The Joshua Three”.